Chapter 6: Akatsuki
"No, I won't EVER go with you!" Inumaru's face showed a quick snarl, his ears pointed made all of Team Seven suspicious. Itachi and Kisame stood silent, and then Kisame snickered "Fine, we will do it the hard way." Kisame disappeared from sight, and then reappeared next to Inumaru, who ducked Kisame's paralyzing blow. Sasuke and Itachi were going toe to toe, and Kakashi was trying to untie Sakura, when suddenly Kisame did a Jutsu that sunk Sakura and Kakashi in a hard bubble. Inumaru dove into the cool water, not caring for his life, but for Sakura and Kakashi, with Kisame hot on his trail. He crashed into the bubble, Unbreakable, dang it!! He tried again and finally knew what he must do, seeing his Sensei's and Sakura's drowning faces. He jumped above the water and saw an unconscious Sasuke and a frozen Naruto. "Naruto! Run!" Inumaru screamed and Naruto turned and ran, knowing these two. As Kisame came up, Inumaru kneeled and darkly said "If I do go with you, will you let them go?" Pointing at the drowning duo and then at the dreaming Sasuke. Kisame, thoroughly shocked by this request looked at Itachi, who, of course wanted Inumaru to come with them nodded, so Kisame grabbed at the flinching Inumaru catching the back of his neck and picking him up. Kisame then stomped on the water and Kakashi and Sakura were let above the water line, he let Inumaru down and he took a leash out of his inside pocket and wrapped it around his neck. The leash suddenly tightened and Inumaru tried to pull it off, with no success there, he grabbed Sakura and Kisame obligingly carried Kakashi over to the lake bed, then two ninja appeared only one came walking up. "Jiraya, please tell Kakashi and my Team I am sorry..." He turned as Kisame pulled on the lead at his neck, slowly dragging behind.
Jiraya's POV We came out of the trees to discover Inumaru the only one of team seven conscious. But I then noticed that Kakashi and Sakura both had blue lips. I rushed over to them and saw Kisame turn and walk away, pulling Inumaru away on a dog leash. "Jiraya, please tell Kakashi and my Team I am sorry..." He said as he was pulled away. I literally saw tears in his eyes, Whoa! Eyes?? Face! Oh my god! I thought, his face looked handsome! Why does he hide it? End Jiraya's POV
Inumaru followed the two team members to a small house at the end of the leaf village. Kisame opened the door and slung Inumaru's lead inside "Go" He harshly said as Inumaru walked into their little hallway with two doors. Kisame pulled Inumaru into one of the doors and took off the leash. This is my chance! I can run now!! But his hopes were shattered as Itachi blocked the door. He went over to the bed in the room, its sheets looked like they were never washed. "Sit." Itachi's voice cut him off of thinking, Inumaru obeyed his older brother's command. "You will not be escaping this room. My room is across the hall and Kisame likes to sleep at the front door. It will be this way until we can trust you and you are evaluated by the rest of the Akatsuki." the two walked out and closed the door. Inumaru heard numerous locks clicking and sighed.
Kakashi's POV "Ahh! INUMARU!?" I screamed as I woke up from the nightmare. Inumaru had been captured by the Akatsuki while I was in a giant bubble with Sakura. Suddenly my thoughts were interrupted as Gai came in followed by Iruka. "You're okay Kakashi. You almost drowned, but Jiraya said Inumaru saved you and Sakura." Gai said pointing at the other two of my students. "Are they okay? Where's Inumaru?" I said thinking of my nightmare. "I think Jiraya said that there were two men in Akatsuki uniforms" I jumped up and ran out of the room, already dressed in my regular attire. "I am going to save Inumaru!" End Kakashi's POV
Inumaru woke up the next morning to see Kisame hovering over him. "AHHHH!! MUTANT SHARK MAN!!" Inumaru screamed as he fell out of his bed. He suddenly felt a bone shattering kick to his chest; he started screaming in his pain. He felt a now broken rib wiggling around his chest. "Get up, you weakling! You won't get any food if you don't stop lazing around." Kisame said clearly angered by the remorseless comment. Inumaru tried to stand up, but with that beating it was too much, he started coughing, getting louder by the minute. Kisame looked at the ground around him and saw Inumaru's blood in small puddles. But then Inumaru stood up, he hunched and walked slowly to the small table in the almost always empty room. He stood shocked at what he saw, a bunch of people in cloaks identical to Itachi's and Kisame's. Kisame came up from behind and pushed him in the room, he tumbled screaming in shock and pain as his ribcage hit the solid ground. Itachi sat in the center next to a very silent man with a mask. He stood there awkwardly when suddenly a man with long blond hair spoke up "So this is him yeah?" he saw Itachi nod and then insulted Inumaru "Isn't he too small? He looks like he could fall over dead at any minute" Inumaru spoke up then "So, what if I am small? It's better than looking like a girl!" The blond male stood and started coming towards him. "Inumaru, Deidara, stop. Inumaru has a dinner to cook. Make sure to make it big enough for all of us!" Itachi said and moved his hand along all of the Akatsuki.
Inumaru got into the kitchen to cook. He shuffled to the pantry and looked inside, Turkey Bacon, Coffee Grounds, Tea Bags, and some dusty bottle labeled, 'only for blackmail, no use!' in Itachi's handwriting. He looked inside and saw something that made him laugh evilly. He had a plan...
"Wow! This is good! What's in it?" Zetzu asked curiously. "Oh, this is Chili made with Venus fly trap leaf powder and shark steaks." Inumaru said cheerfully as he heard two men choking on their own food. Suddenly he heard a chair scratch on the floor and felt his collar being tugged upward and around to see Kisame's reddened eyes staring him down forcibly. He was carried by his shirt into his room and thrown against the opposite wall feeling several bones shatter. He landed onto his bed of rags crying with the pain, his vision was getting blurry as he saw two men restrain Kisame from giving him any more damage. He felt someone scoop him up as he screamed in pain. He looked up into the blurry face of an older Rock Lee. His body went limp as he passed out.